Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 58

[153] _Zhidenok_, strictly the cub of a _zhid_, a word which properly means a Jew, but is used here for a devil.

Who acts: word · What happens: mean, use · To what, where: Jew

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 153	punct
2	153	153	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 153	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Zhidenok	punct
5	Zhidenok	Zhidenok	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 153	appos
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Zhidenok	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cub	punct
8	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	10 cub	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cub	det
10	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 153	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 zhid	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 zhid	det
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 zhid	punct
14	zhid	zhid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cub	nmod
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 153	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 word	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 153	appos
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 means	nsubj
20	properly	properly	ADV	_	21 means	advmod
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 word	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Jew	det
23	Jew	Jew	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 means	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 used	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 used	cc
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 used	aux:pass
27	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 means	conj
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 used	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 devil	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 devil	det
31	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 used	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 153	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a word	a Jew				properly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jew=Topic
2	use	present · passive	a word not said here			here		for a devil	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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